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Start reading →How the 2026 Iran conflict rewrites the global energy map sketched in Contested Ground — a systems view of chokepoint activation, supply chain propagation, and...
Alberta is routinely called the Texas of the North. The comparison is not without merit — both are energy economies that chafe against federal government....
Alberta has 12% of the population but generates 32% of Canadian exports. It contributed $267.4 billion more to Ottawa than it received back between 2007...
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Alberta has 12% of the population but generates 32% of Canadian exports. It contributed $267.4 billion more to Ottawa than it received back between 2007...
Alberta is routinely called the Texas of the North. The comparison is not without merit — both are energy economies that chafe against federal government....
Three forces press simultaneously on global oil markets. Sanctions have reshuffled trade flows without removing supply. China's renewable buildout is compressing the growth curve that...
How the 2026 Iran conflict rewrites the global energy map sketched in Contested Ground — a systems view of chokepoint activation, supply chain propagation, and...
Alberta has no coastline, no navigable rivers to tidewater, and sits 1,200 kilometres from the nearest port. Every tonne of export and every passenger trip...
The debate about Alberta's pipelines generates more heat than light, in part because it is rarely conducted with actual infrastructure data. This essay describes the...
A province that produces 40% of Canada's beef cattle, refines its own diesel, and grows canola across the parkland belt consistently pays above-average grocery prices....
Every year, roughly 35 million visits land on Alberta — most through two airports, most headed toward a narrow band of mountain terrain. This is...
WTI crude touched $119 a barrel on Sunday before the G7 coordinated a strategic reserve release and knocked it back to $104. By Monday morning,...
Four episodes across four centuries — nutmeg, tea, opium, oil — tracing a single pattern: a commodity becomes worth fighting over, force is deployed to...
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